[blam]

GGG Ping

Farnese Atlas

[eastsider]

Outstanding post!!!

[Graymatter]

Next stop...EBAY!!!!!!

[cayuga]

Thanks for another interesting post, blam.

[hershey]

Fantastic!

[N. Theknow]

LSU Researcher Solves Ancient Astronomy Mystery

A collection of stars in the Milky Way actually spell out:

Go To Hell Ole Miss!

[Clara Lou]

"...perhaps the best part of the discovery is "simply that we have recovered one of the most famous known examples of lost ancient wisdom."
Very cool.

[ruoflaw]

You have outdone yourself!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Interesting post!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. It could be that other such statues were made, even commonplace, various sizes, etc, but quite a lot of ancient Roman-era sculpture wound up getting rendered into lime (fired) during the middle ages, for use as mortar and the like.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[quantim]

An ancient mystery may have been solved by LSU Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Bradley E. Schaefer.

Well, that sure beats that 'depth PhD ' a few hours ago....

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I know it is name dropping, but I knew Brad quite a few years ago when he worked on the HEASRC team on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in MD. He once told me that as far as Gamma Ray Bursters were concerned, for every scientist, there were at least two theories.

He is a lead, follow or get out my way type of guy. At that time, he had a hobby of trying to prove that, for all intents and purposes, Admiral Byrd had reached the North Pole (many of his friends disagreed).

[patton]

Wow. excellent post.

Eureka! It is a freeking MAP!

Man, what an epiphany.

[Towed_Jumper]

blam...many thanks for posting. This was a very interesting article especially for an astronomy buff like me.